You might be thinking, along with Oh Gizmo's Luke Anderson, that a pedal powered wheelchair is something of an oxymoron. The Pedalofit is in fact a rehabilitation device rather than a means of ...

Coaching Uebayashi is Itō Akira. Having experienced life in a wheelchair following an auto accident, Itō is now busy helping promote the use of pedal-powered chairs for the partially paralyzed.

TESS Co.'s Cogy wheelchair, designed for people who have trouble walking but can still move their legs, is pedal-powered, says the firm's representative director, Kenji Suzuki. "You can start ...